Senate BillNo. 1037


Introduced by Senator Hernandez

February 18, 2014


An act to amend Section 101 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to highways.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1037, as introduced, Hernandez. State highways.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law requires the department to keep in repair all objects or markers adjacent to a state highway that have been erected to mark registered historical places and to keep those markers free from vegetation that may obscure them from view.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 101 of the Streets and Highways Code
2 is amended to read:

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101.  

(a) The department shall keep in repair all objects or
4markers adjacent to a state highwaybegin delete whichend deletebegin insert thatend insert have been erected
5to mark registered historical places and shall keepbegin delete suchend deletebegin insert thoseend insert
6 markers free from vegetationbegin delete whichend deletebegin insert thatend insert may obscure them from
7view.

8(b) When the Legislature, by concurrent resolution, has
9designated names for certain districts and state highway bridges,
10and requested the placing of name plaques at the boundaries of
P2    1the districts or on the bridges, the department is authorized to
2expend reasonable sums forbegin delete suchend deletebegin insert thoseend insert plaques.

3(c) Any major bridge not previously named by the Legislature
4may be named by the Legislature, by concurrent resolution, for a
5serviceman killed in action who was a resident of the county in
6which the bridge is located. The name shall be selected from names
7submitted to the department bybegin delete veterans’end deletebegin insert veteransend insert associations as
8defined by Section 1260 of the Military and Veterans Code.



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